Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrifty Joseph Stalin belatedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists last week in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet war birds in mass formation darkened the sky and last week the Leftist Cabinet reorganized itself for a last-minute effort to crawl between the jaws of defeat and wrench out the tonsils of victory...
...France numerous Leftist personages, and Donna Luis Companys, wife of the President of Catalonia. On foot to France 6,000 persons fled from Leftist Spain. To 5,000 of these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...along the Grand Canal sector north of Suchow, furiously-battling Chinese surged forward in frontal attacks. At Taierhchwang, scene of back-&-forth fighting for a fortnight, the Chinese hurled new Soviet tanks, fresh German-trained troops into the line, recaptured the city. At last reports the Japanese had dug in at Yihsien, 20 miles to the rear, where they were attempting to consolidate their forces in the area. Chinese armies hammered against the town in an effort to drive the Japanese farther back...
...influence of the atheists and the tenacity of Christianity, Stalin started his crusher to work on churchmen-in particular on Metropolitan Sergius, head of the Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Vitalius, head of the Living Church (TIME, Jan. 24). These dignitaries, and a great many more, were accused in the Soviet press of everything from drinking champagne with nuns to plotting assassinations of Soviet officials. Last week, with at least 20 bishops in jail and one, Metropolitan Theophan of Gorki, reported executed, the threat of the crusher appeared to have "converted" at least one potential victim. Nikolas Platonoff, Metropolitan...
...that his church duties were burdensome, and finally discontinued them entirely. "For me," wrote the Metropolitan, "the face of the priesthood has been unmasked." Thereupon Nikolas proceeded to particularize, naming prelates by name and accusing them of crimes which, point by point, corresponded precisely with the accusations of the Soviet press...